Pigault-Lebrun

Pigault-Lebrun, a popular but immoral novel writer, narrowly escaped lately a trip to Cayenne for one of his blasphemous publications, and owes to the protection of Madame Murat exclusively that he was not sent to keep Varennes and Beaujou company.

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The novelists and dramatists whom Balzac made earliest acquaintance with were probably those whose works were appearing and attracting notice during his school-days -- Pigault-Lebrun, Ducray-Duminil, and that Guilbert de Pixerecourt who for a third of the nineteenth century was worshipped as the Corneille of melodrama.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

Pigault-Lebrun, a popular but immoral novel writer, narrowly escaped lately a trip to Cayenne for one of his blasphemous publications, and owes to the protection of Madame Murat exclusively that he was not sent to keep Varennes and Beaujou company.

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Manuel in copying his notes and articles, and as compensation, no doubt, let him take novels by Paul de Kock and Pigault-Lebrun, some of them highly spiced, as for example _Nuns and Corsairs_ and

The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

Pigault-Lebrun in such French literary history as takes notice of him, appears to be _verve_: and the recognised dictionary-sense of _verve_ is

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

[Sidenote: Pigault-Lebrun -- the difference of his positive and relative importance.]

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Pigault-Lebrun -- was the recognition of the connection -- the intimate and all but necessary connection -- of the completed novel with ordinary life.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Pigault-Lebrun [425] spent nearly half of his long life in the nineteenth century, and did not die till Scott was dead in England, and the great series of novel-romances had begun, with Hugo and others, in France.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

It is because Pigault-Lebrun, though a low kind of creature from every point of view, except that of mere craftsmanship, did, like his betters, recognise the fact in practice, that he has been allowed here a place of greater consideration than perhaps has ever fallen to his lot before in literary history.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Pigault-Lebrun, for France, may be said to be the first author-in-chief of the circulating library.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889